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It is okay to get clinical exposure by way of a parent's practice or someone with whom your parent works, but you should also get some clinical experience (either paid or unpaid) in a primary care practice (general pediatrics, general internal medicine, or family medicine). You should also have some volunteer experience with people at the other end of the economic spectrum through work in a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, food pantry, or similar social service program.
Well, if anyone knows your parent's line of work, they may assume that you made the connection through your parent. No matter. The point is that you should not limit your clinical experience to a surgical specialty and should have some primary care exposure before applying.
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Didn't you say you have an experience in family medicine? Even if that was only for a day or two, I think you can make a convincing argument that you know what medicine is about. Shadowing is really overrated (although it is a box to some adcoms) and there is a hard ceiling to how much you can get from it.
She did mention it and I missed it... Good pick-up, aldol16.
